Editing Booker T. & the M.G.'s (section)

==Later success: 1965–1969==
Booker T. & the M.G.'s consistently issued singles from 1963 to 1965, but only a few made the charts, and none was as successful as "Green Onions". Their second album, ''Soul Dressing'', was released in 1965. Whereas the ''Green Onions'' album contained mostly covers, every composition but one on ''Soul Dressing'' was an original. After contributing to that album, Steinberg left the group, and Dunn (who had played on previous Stax sessions) became the group's full-time bassist.

During a tour when the band was in Los Angeles playing in a Stax Revue, an informal jam session with three of the M.G.'s was recorded in Hollywood in 1965, initiated by DJ [[Magnificent Montague]] who played congas. The resulting track, "Hole in the Wall", was issued by Pure Soul Music in October 1965 credited to [[the Packers]] with writing shared by Montague, Cropper, Jackson and Jones. The track reached number 43 on Billboard, and made the Top 30 on Cash Box. All other songs released by the Packers had no involvement from Booker T. & the M.G.'s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waybackattack.com/packers.html|title=Way Back Attack - The Packers|website=Waybackattack.com|access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref>

After a period of commercial decline, Booker T. & the M.G.'s finally returned to the Top 40 with the 1967 instrumental "Hip Hug-Her". It was the first single on which Jones played a [[Hammond B-3]] organ, the instrument with which he is most closely associated (he used a [[Hammond M-3]] on all of the earlier recordings, including "Green Onions"). The group also had a substantial hit with their cover of [[the Rascals]]' "[[Groovin']]". Both tracks are included on their album ''Hip Hug-Her'', released in the same year.

In the spring of 1967, they joined a group of Stax artists billed as the "Stax/Volt Revue" on a European tour, in which they performed in their own right and backed the other acts. In June of that year, they appeared at the [[Monterey Pop Festival]], playing their own set and then backing [[Otis Redding]], alongside performers like [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Janis Joplin]], [[the Who]], and [[Jefferson Airplane]]. They were invited to perform at the [[Woodstock Festival]] in 1969, but drummer Jackson was worried about the helicopter needed to deliver them to the site, and so they decided not to play.

The albums ''Doin' Our Thing'' and ''[[Soul Limbo]]'' were released in 1968. The track "[[Soul Limbo]]", featuring marimba by [[Terry Manning]], was a hit (later used by the [[BBC]] as their theme for [[cricket]] coverage on both TV and, latterly, radio's ''[[Test Match Special]]''), as was their version of "[[Hang 'Em High (composition)|Hang 'Em High]]".<ref name="Larkin"/> In 1969, the band scored their second biggest hit with "[[Time Is Tight]]",<ref name="Larkin"/> from the [[soundtrack]] to the movie ''[[Uptight (film)|Up Tight!]]'', scored by Jones,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063748/|title=Uptight|website=IMDb.com|access-date=October 17, 2019}}</ref> which reached No. 6 on the Billboard pop charts.

For the 1969 album ''Damifiknow!'', the Mar-Keys name was revived. The members of the group were explicitly identified in the album credits as the sextet of Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Booker T. Jones, Al Jackson, and horn players Andrew Love and Wayne Jackson (no relation to Al). The album didn't receive much attention, and the core quartet soon returned to playing and performing as Booker T. & the M.G.'s.